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Posidonius

Fragments on Customs and Wars Carrier unit 57a

Carrier unit 68 of 197

Canonical reference F.57a

Ancient Greek

STRABON V 2, 1: ἡ Λιγυστική .... οὐδὲν ἔχουσα περιηγήσεως ἄξιον, πλὴν ὅτι κωμηδὸν ζῶσι, τραχεῖαν γῆν ἀροῦντες καὶ σκάπτοντες, μᾶλλον δὲ λατομοῦντες, ὥς φησι Ποσειδώνιος.

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Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-15

STRABO V 2, 1: Liguria ... has nothing worthy of description, except that its people live in villages, ploughing and digging a rugged land, or rather quarrying it, as Posidonius says.

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Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-15

STRABON V 2, 1 : La Ligystique [...] ne présente rien qui mérite une description, si ce n’est que ses habitants vivent dispersés en villages, labourant et creusant une terre rude, ou plutôt taillant la pierre, comme le dit Posidonius.

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